Monday, August 9, 2010

Hello, I'm an imbecile, aka Australian.



It’s gotten to the stage where I take great pleasure in reading the Herald Sun just to rant about the moronic content/commentary/drivel passing for articles/lack of style/you get the picture.

On Sunday I was blessed (and this was after a cursory glance) with two golden opportunities.
Not only was Catherine Lambert’s usual laughably pathetic attempt at finding a vaguely fashionable person to photograph and deconstruct up (or down) to par, but Eddie MacGuire chose to address the Victorian public with no little disregard for the coventions of written English. Sentence 1: incomplete. Sentence 2: incomplete. Sentence 3: punctuation would have helped. Sentence 4: I forget, but there was something wrong with it, because my outrage was squarely centred on the fact that a Year 9 student should (although given the state of our education system, may not) be able to produce four coherent sentences.

Fair enough, Eddie’s an everyman, so maybe it’s to his benefit to be semi-illiterate. I wouldn’t know, being one of the minority holding a postgraduate qualification. I’m not even meant to be reading the Herald-Sun; I should be supporting The Age or The Australian along with my university-educated peers.

It’s distressingly easy to see why people are becoming dumber; the public sphere expects so little of us – and so we get condescension ladled out in spoonfuls; SHOCK! Our weekly shopping is getting more expensive! A. Buy home brands (because that solves the problem of raw material and production costs rising, DER.) SHOCK! Our kids are getting fatter! A. Boost their self-esteem, because all that emotional eating is destroying them (not what you put in your trolley or what they’re bullied into wanting by advertising, another dissertation altogether). SHOCK! Australian public growing more stupid! A. Yeah, no, like really?

On a more distressing note, this is my 200th blog post. Two hundred posts and I've still got things to gripe about. Wow. I suppose I should come up with some fantastic giveaway or way of compelling people to come out of the woodwork, leave comments, pander to my ego, etc, but this requires more thought than I'm capable of on a Monday night, hacking and sneezing my way toward bedtime. Help me. 

10 comments:

m. said...

Oh, I so agree.
Definitely.

Western Australian papers aren't any better.

Linda McIver said...

Wow! 200 posts! You don't post nearly often enough, yet you post more than twice as often as me... hmmm. :-) Congratulations!

Cwybrow said...

margg: that's consoling. In a way. Or more depressing. Wait, let me check which side of the bed I fell out of this morning.

Linda: I know - 200 and I'm still rambling about aimlessly... good to have one area of my life where I do that, i suppose. I find myself trying to solve the second part of your comment like one of those grade five math problems where children are buying fruit for one another and trying to ship animals across a river on an implausibly small raft. Ah, think how dangerous we'd be if we EVER spent time in the same room without distractions.

James said...

Hi.

[Out of the woodwork. Sans giveaway.]

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